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A rare deep sea fish, regarded as a harbinger of doom, has washed up on a southern California shore.. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, said one ...
The "St. Augustine Monster", a carcass that washed ashore near St. Augustine, Florida, in 1896. A globster or blob is an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water. A globster is distinguished from a normal beached carcass by being hard to identify, at least by initial untrained observers, and ...
A group of friends exploring the waters off La Jolla Cove on Saturday came across a sea creature unlike anything they'd ever seen: a 12-foot-long rare fish from the depths of the ocean.
The sea creature, which they nicknamed the "mystery mollusk" because of its snail-like features, captivated them. But it would be years until the general public learned of this deep-sea discovery.
It includes animals that were caught by fishermen, found washed ashore, recovered (in whole or in part) from sperm whales and other predatory species, as well as those reliably sighted at sea. The list also covers specimens incorrectly assigned to the genus Architeuthis in original descriptions or later publications.
The Bathysphere on display at the National Geographic museum in 2009. The Bathysphere (from Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús) 'deep' and σφαῖρα (sphaîra) 'sphere') was a unique spherical deep-sea submersible which was unpowered and lowered into the ocean on a cable, and was used to conduct a series of dives off the coast of Bermuda from 1930 to 1934.
The same species washed up on the state park’s shore two years ago, officials said. Rare deep sea creature with ‘bioluminescent tips’ turns up on California shore. See it
Marine sediment, or ocean sediment, or seafloor sediment, are deposits of insoluble particles that have accumulated on the seafloor.These particles either have their origins in soil and rocks and have been transported from the land to the sea, mainly by rivers but also by dust carried by wind and by the flow of glaciers into the sea, or they are biogenic deposits from marine organisms or from ...